Sub for more: http://nnn.is/the_new_media | Kim Smith for The Conservative Tribune reports, Martial arts master, actor and outspoken conservative Chuck Norris is an Oklahoma native who carved a public image for himself playing a Texas Ranger in a popular television series. Now, the Texas legislature has carved it into history.

In 2007, when I began writing my New York Times best-seller, “Black Belt Patriotism,” unemployment was less than 5 percent, the annual federal budget was about $2.9 trillion, the federal deficit was $161 billion and the national debt was $9 trillion.

To add insult to injury, our vassalage to other countries deepens as they bankroll increasing amounts of U.S. debt, with more than one-half of the public debt alone held by private investors in foreign lands. . . . Read Complete Report